Health
Basics: Its Poor Reputation Aside, Our Fat Is Doing Us a Favor
Fat?s bland and amorphous appearance notwithstanding, it represents a highly specialized organ, as finely honed to the task of energy storage as muscle is built for flexing. Read more…
Psychiatric Center for Teenagers Is Mired in Patient Accusations of Rape
A Manhattan psychiatric treatment center said that it was cooperating with authorities who have charged former employees with sexually assaulting girls at the center. Read more…
Link Is Seen Between British Labs and Livestock Virus
The strain of foot-and-mouth disease at a farm in southern England was the same as used in the production of vaccine at two veterinary laboratories four miles away, health inspectors said. Read more…
What Autistic Girls Are Made Of
Research and clinical observation are starting to show that autistic girls are different from autistic boys. And these differences may have implications for the quality of their lives. Read more…
Young Athletes Try New Coach: The Psychologist
The idea that mental coaching can help young athletes has pervaded the country?s zealous youth sports culture. Read more…
Ideas & Trends: Your Friends of Friends
We?re all connected, even when it comes to obesity, smoking and depression. Read more…
Ideas & Trends: Less, Less, Less! More, More, Moore!
A battle immemorial over the size of government. Today it?s about children. Read more…
Idea Lab: Baby?s First Diet Pill
What if we could change a child?s calorie-regulation mechanism at birth? Read more…
A Time to Heal
A memoir of a childhood, an illness, family and friendship in the 1950s. Read more…
Lawmaker Calls for Registry of Drug Firms Paying Doctors
An influential Republican senator says he will propose legislation requiring a federal registry of payments made by drug makers to doctors. Read more…
